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Focus on defects and disasters, pocket $100

  • 03/05/2022
  • Author Jimmy-T

Want to add to academics’ collective knowledge about living in strata and all the  … um .. challenges it presents, and score a couple of $50 vouchers for doing so?…

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    Burning questions about fire inspections answered

    • 21/03/2022
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Recently, there have been a number of questions about fire safety inspections and measures on the Flat Chat Forum. Last week, one of our Flatchatters, an accredited Fire Safety Practitioner,…

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      Lannock to manage NSW cladding loans

      • 28/02/2022
      • Author Jimmy-T

      The NSW Government has appointed long-time Flat Chat supporter Lannock Strata Finance to manage the state’s Project Remediate interest-free loans, intended to help owners corporations with the cost of rectifying…

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        Podcast: Two alarms over fire safety in apartments

        • 25/01/2022
        • Author Jimmy-T

        This week the pod takes a deep dive into the murky waters of fire safety, how we ignore it at our considerable peril and how this essential part of our…

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          Govt. promises major strata fire safety revamp

          • 14/12/2021
          • Author Jimmy-T

          There is a lot of confusion and anger in Strataland about fire safety, including who gets to choose what’s safe and what isn’t, and how a building that has passed…

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            Podcast: Premiums soar thanks to sins of the past

            • 25/05/2021
            • Author Jimmy-T

            We admit we can get a little city-centric here at Flat Chat so last weekend it was good to get out of the urban jungle and find out what’s happening…

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              Flatchatter saves $25k on fire safety ‘blackmail’

              • 11/09/2020
              • Author Jimmy-T

              A Flatchatter has just saved his strata scheme $25,000 – 70 per cent of their fire safety inspection bill – after responding to what they felt were threats and blackmail…

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                Don’t be alarmed – there’s a burnt toast by-law

                • 25/08/2020
                • Author Jimmy-T

                Fire alarms can go off for all sorts of reasons that have nothing to do with fire. It could be smoke from seriously burnt toast meeting an over sensitive alarm,…

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                  Owners win battle over Biowood cladding

                  • 12/08/2020
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  Apartment owners battling to have combustible cladding replaced on their buildings have won a landmark legal victory – giving hope to the thousands more facing similar dangers, writes Sue Williams.…

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                    Call for ban on balcony barbies … but not here

                    • 04/08/2020
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    The heat has been turned up on balcony barbecues as a cause of fires in apartments … but in a part of the world where you might least expect it.…

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                      New fire safety regs on strata webinar agenda

                      • 21/05/2020
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      You guys are getting into the technology, big time. Apparently more than 200 strata residents took part in the Owners Corporation Network (OCN) webinar on Airbnb and short term letting…

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                        Burning issue – OCN seminar on new fire regs

                        • 15/02/2020
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        There are few phrases that send more of a chill thorough the hearts of strata owners than the words “fire safety”. Whether you’re in an old building badly in need…

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